APS Member Count Tops 48,000 APS has over 48,000 members for the first time according to the annual membership count |
New Physical Review Journal Offers Online, Open Access Publishing APS's New Journal, Physical Review X, lets authors publish their original research from all fields of physics in an online only open access journal |
Kovar Reflects on State of High Energy Physics, and the Road Ahead The recently retired Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics in the Department of Energy, Dennis Kovar, reflects on his 20 years at the DOE |
Funding Runs Out to Keep Tevatron Alive Fermilab's atom smasher, the Tevatron, will be shut down for good by September despite recent efforts by physicists at the lab to keep it running |
Comments Sought for APS Non-Proliferation Petition The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering an APS sponsored change in regulations about nonproliferation requirements for companies looking to process uranium |
New PhDs Trending Away from Postdoc Positions The proportion of recently graduated PhD students accepting a postdoctoral position has declined dramatically since 2004 |
Dutch, Spanish Physicists to Give March Meeting Beller Lectures Francisco Guinea of Spain and Rienk van Grondelle of the Netherlands will speak at this year's March Meeting as the recipients of the Beller Lectureships |
COMPETES Act Signed Into Law Despite resistance in the House, the America COMPETES act, which supports science research and education programs, becomes law |
Top Ten Physics-Related News Stories of 2010 APS News staff looked back at the news about physics and physicists that made headlines in 2010 |